Postcolonial Francophone autobiographies
Subtitle: from Africa to the Antilles
By: Edgard Sankara
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780813931715; 9780813931722; 9780813931760
Subjects: French literature; Autobiography; West Indian literature (French); African literature (French); History and criticism; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hampâté Bâ: equilibrium and ambiguous reception; title: Valentin Mudimbé: autobiography, philosophy, and exclusive Francophone reception; title: Kesso Barry: autobiography, masculinity, ambiguity, and limited reception; title: Patrick Chamoiseau: the theatrical self and a paradoxical reception; title: Raphaël Confiant: defense and illustration of Créolité and its complacent reception; title: Maryse Condé: autobiographical space and lukewarm reception.